safety lamp

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The same gallery will host works by Ryan Gander, who will create sculptures inspired by northern inventions, from Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulb to George Stephenson's Geordie safety lamp.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2018

Again it was a result of an opened safety lamp igniting the gas.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2017

For it was in Newcastle in 1815 that the miners' safety lamp was first demonstrated, an entirely practical device made not for stylish appearance, but to stop miners from getting blown up.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2012

I might walk straight into a pocket of gas, and, without any safety lamp to tell me of the danger, be poisoned then and there.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

I do not call to mind even an invention of practical utility which we owe to any of them, except the safety lamp of Davy.

From The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century by Huxley, Thomas Henry